Improvement in whip-sockets



CHARLESVA. F LESEHE. mprovement in Whip-Sockets.

N0. 127 135, I l P aten ted May 21,

CnARLns A. FLnsCnn, or New HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,135, dated May 21,1872.

tral section, full size; and in Fig. 3, a vertical central section ofthe usual construction.

This invention relates to an improvement in the socket which is attachedto carriages for the purpose of carrying the whip, and especially tothat class of whip-sockets which are made from wood.

The usual construction is that seen in Fig. 3. A is the body of thesocket, upon the upper end of which a ring, a, is placed, inclosing aring, (1, of thin rubber or similar material. Upon the outside upper endof the body a thread is formed by placing a threaded metal ring thereon,and over this a metal tip, B, is fitted, a flange, b, at the upper edge,clamping down onto the metal ring a to hold it in place. Thisconstruction is considerably expensive, inasmuch as the metal band Bmust be finished, and the fitting of the metal thread to the end of thesocket in order to hold the band adds to this expense, the thin wood notbeing of suflicient strength to allow the cutting of the externalthread.

To reduce vthe cost of construction is the object of this invention 5and it consists in forming an internal shoulder to receive the elasticring, and with a ring inserted upon the inside of the socket onto thisfirst-named ring, whereby the shell of the socket and tip may be made inone and the same piece.

A is the body of the socket, formed from wood or other suitablematerial, having the band B at the upper end formed solid or in one andthe same piece with the body of the socket, as seen in Fig. 2. Upon theinside of this socket a shoulder, f, is formed, onto which the ring a,which inoloses the edge of the elastic ring d, is placed, and above thisa ring, 0, is inserted down upon the ring a to secure it in position.The ring 0 is best secured by threading, as shown, or it may beotherwise secured. Thus the whole body of the socket is made in one andthe same piece and from the same material, "thus avoiding the expense ofconstruction before referred to.

I claim as my invention- 1. As an article of manufacture, a whipsockethaving the body A and neck or tip B formed in one and the same piece,with a shoulder,f, upon the inside, upon which the elastic ring d isplaced and secured, substantially as described.

2. I also claim the whip-socket in a modified form, having the body madeas above dc scribed, and a rubber disk placed within the groove in thesocket, which may be held in place by a loose ring serrated on its upperedge and resting on the shoulders f.

CHARLES A. FLESGHE.

Witnesses:

A. J. Tinnrrs, JOHN E. EARLE.

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